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FIRST and foremost, ever since Erdogan,Turkey’s Islamist President, took over the country (first as PM), there should have been no doubt that trusting the nation as an ally is wildly dangerous for US (western) interests and Israel’s alike. Even so, don’t get this (American-Israeli) investigative journalist started on the ins and outs of Israel’s leaders and (some of) their strategically indefensible alliances. They hail from the tippy-top via political hacks and worse.

IN any case, to internalize how America got from there to here vis-à-vis Turkey’s Brotherhood henchman, a brief backgrounder is in order from an excerpted interview with Inquisitr.

Wolff Bachner: Ever since Turkish Prime Minister Erdogancame to power in 2003, Turkey has slowly evolved from a secular state to a religious theocracy based on Sharia Law and Islam. Erdogan has taken every opportunity to undo decades of good relations with Israel while supporting Hamas and Jihad. What is going on in Turkey and what is Erdogan’s endgame?

Adina Kutnicki: In answer to the all important question of Turkey, its position as a so called “moderate” Muslim nation and its relationship to Israel, a brief backgrounder is in order. Turkey has enjoyed a “pet” relationship within the west, ever since its membership in NATO began in 1952. And, while the honeymoon lasted a little over 50 years, not too long after Prime Minister Recep Erdogan took over the helm, in March 2003, as Turkey’s 25th PM, the government’s Islamist agenda (from a secular leaning/tolerant nation) reared its head. Their volte face was not done in rapid moves, but akin to the precepts of Stealth Jihad – incrementally, phase by phase.

It is essential to acknowledge that PM Erdogan is a devoted and dedicated leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, as elucidated at Aina.org. He is also President Obama’s BFF, and this is no secret. Indeed, it is more than instructive to view their relationship in global terms, particularly since the rise of Islamism throughout Turkey merges with its entrenchment within Washington’s corridors.

“Hamas is a terrorist group in search of a home. Uprooted by the Syrian civil war, and shaken by the Egyptian coup, the Hamas leadership has taken temporary shelter in Qatar, but that tiny emirate is showing every sign that they want the Islamist radicals to move on. So where would a radical Islamist terrorist group dedicated to the eradication of the State of Israel and whose charter endorses the crudest anti-Semitism turn? Perhaps to Turkey, America’s NATO ally and a country whose leader President Obama identified as one of his top personal foreign friends.”

According to Hürriyet Daily News:

“The prime ministry in Ankara was the venue for a meeting between the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Khaled Mashaal, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan today. The meeting, which started at 7 p.m. and lasted for three hours, was closed to the press. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National Intelligence Agency (MİT) chief Hakan Fidan, Deputy Undersecretary for the Prime Minister’s Office İbrahim Kalın and advisor Sefer Turan were also present at the meeting, Anadolu Agency reported. The meeting between Mashaal and Erdoğan came around four months after their latest meeting. It came at a time when rumors suggest that Mashaal, currently in exile in Qatar, is searching for another place to live.”

Some1,500 US airmen and their families have been locked in the southern Turkish air base of Incirlik together with a stock of tactical nuclear bombs since President Reccep Erdogan crushed an attempted coup on Saturday, July 16. In the four days up until Wednesday, July 20, therefore, no air strikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq have been staged from that Turkish base.
This extraordinary situation, reported here by DEBKAfile’s military sources, whereby a large group of American military personnel are held virtual captive by an allied government, was almost certainly raised in the phone call that took place Tuesday between President Barack Obama and Erdogan. But the most outlandish aspect of this affair is that no American official has raised it in public – nor even by the administrations most vocal critics at the Republican convention which nominated Donald Trump as presidential candidate.The situation only rated a brief mention in some Russian publications under the heading: “Turkish investigators enter & search Incirlik air base where US nukes are housed.”
Our military sources report that deep bunkers located near the base’s running strips house B61 tactical nuclear gravity bombs.
In the course of the massive sweep-cum-purge Erdogan is conducting in every corner of the country, hundreds of police officers accompanied by Ministry of Justice and Attorney General Office investigators are the only people permitted to enter the strategic air base, and only emergency cases may leave, after coordinating with the Turkish authorities.The base is under virtual siege by large police contingents, cut off from electric power for several days except for local generators which will soon run out of fuel. This pressure appears to be Erdogan’s method of turning hundreds of Americans on the base into hostages to force Washington into extraditing Fethullah Gulen, whom he accuses of orchestrating the failed coup from his place of asylum in Pennsylvania.
The victims of Erdogan’s strategy of extortion are several US units deployed in Incirlik under squadron command. They include engineering, communication, logistics, air control, a military hospital with medical and operational facilities, air transportation and more.
The Turkish squadron and base commander, Brigadier Gen. Bekir Ercan, is under arrest, suspected of a senior role in planning and executing the coup, by assigning the aircraft and helicopters to support it, responsibility for the disappearance of a large number of aircraft and aiding the defection of air crews to Greece.
He is one of the more than 6,000 military personnel including fellow generals arrested on suspicion of active complicity in the coup plot.

By Wednesday, more than 50,000 people had been rounded up, sacked or suspended from their jobs by Turkey’s government in the wake of last week’s failed coup, including 9,000 police officers, the suspension of about 3,000 judges and widening Tuesday to include teachers, university deans and the media who are accused of links with Gulen.
However, fears for the fate of the US airmen trapped in Incirlik and the tactical nukes were exacerbated by the comments of two top officials of the Erdogan regime Tuesday.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim insinuated that the Americans may be viewed as partners, at least passive ones, in the conspiracy, in view of the use the plotters made of Incirlik for sending aircraft based there and arming them for the missions of intercepting the President’s airplane (which was never realized) and bombing the Parliament building in Ankara (which was).
The Turkish Labor Minister, Süleyman Soylu, was more explicit: “This coup has America behind,” he twitted in his Twitter account.
The Obama administration’s caution over the scary Incirlik impasse appears to derive from trepidation, shared by Riyadh, Cairo and Jerusalem, that the autocratic Turkish ruler’s Stalinist purge reaching into all branches of government and all walks of Turkish society is part and parcel of a comprehensive Muslim revolution underway in Turkey. An incautious word from Washington may quicken the process.

ON a geo-political level, and to the uninitiated, it would appear as if HUSSEIN Obama and Erdogan are on opposite teams. But nothing could be further from reality. Realistically-speaking, they are truly BFF’s, cheek-to cheek and nose-to nose. They are that close.

IN fact, while it is absolutely the case that the pressure exerted is to force the US to extradite Erdogan’s arch foe (who used to be his close ally and is also a stealth Islamist, but never mind), HUSSEIN Obama’s dog in this is on Erdogan’s side. However, as always (and for appearance sake), there is still a delicate tight-rope to walk.

BUT most significantly, this site reported on January 7, 2016, and it was a full seven months before the hostage-taking:

Regardless of volumes of bullet-proof evidence –here….here….here….here….here….here….here….and so on and so forth – that Erdogan is a mobbed up Brotherhood “made man”, HUSSEIN Obama (and other western apologists) considers him a VERY close ally and friend!

IN this regard, Erdogan is less than six degrees separated from ISIS, that which serves his Caliphate goals to an absolute certainty. Resultant, internalizing said nexus is key and core.

WHICH beings us back to the core question: how did the US get from “there to here”, with 1,500 Airmen and their families held hostage?? Well, if you carefully examine the question through its inversion, and understand the above for what it is, plus factor in all the evidence regarding HUSSEIN Obama’s Islamist bent, the geo-political dots come into (almost) perfect alignment.

There is a reason US paratroopers frequently practice seizing airfields.
There’s a reason the US Military frequently practices regime change.
There is a reason muslims cannot be trusted to lead this nation.

Wow! If we assume (and we do) that Obama’s (and Morsi’s) original attempt to create a hostage situation that would benefit the Muslim Brotherhood failed because a couple of SEALs just couldn’t help acting like Americans– then this crisis is deja-vu all over again, but to the tenth power: A hostage situation much juicier and far more ominous than simply swapping a blind sheik for an ambassador. We can see this one developing into a situation in which the President stares into his magic teleprompter and stammers out words to the effect of, “Fortunately, we can bring our brave military personnel home to safety, we just need to leave their equipment behind,” and yipes–Papa Erdogan’s Li’l A-Bomb Shoppe is open for business!

Paratroopers will absolutely not be dispatched, because as Adina sagaciously points out, Obama is furtively sympathetic to Erdogan’s scheme, and quite possibly already colluding with him to ensure its furtherance. Also, the Turks are highly skilled combatants, thus Rangers could seize and hold the airfield while a rescue was effectuated, yes, but the body count would be atrocious on both sides, and probably impossible to blame on a video.

Still, jingoistic, saber-rattling extremists that we are here in the WOOF cave, we cannot help expressing our view that if those F-16s and that much firepower decided to leave town suddenly, trying to stop them would prove painful in the extreme for anyone who got in front of those whirling, death-spewing 20mm Vulcan Gatlings.

But we digress–and If such thoughts afright any portion of your readership, Adina, we exhort them to find comfort in our assurance that America’s First Schmuck is not only a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (which he won for doing absolutely nothing, and which he firmly intends to retain on the same basis), but also an honored member in good standing of the “No More Cowboy Diplomacy” Club, founded and chaired by Hillary “Benghazi” Clinton.

What this means is: Obama would never permit so violent an exit strategy to proceed, mainly because he could not bear the thought of bloodshed befalling troops with whom he shares so many beliefs and traditions, whose vision he has long embraced as his own, and whose leadership he so profoundly admires. Oh, and he probably wouldn’t want any Americans getting killed, either…you know…it might get reported on Fox or something!.

As to HUSSEIN & Morsi, well, I have certain docs in a “safe” place which implicate the duo re the Blind Sheikh and Benghazigate. Hill, and her “gal pal”, Humala – as I like to affectionately call her – are up to their necks in this betrayal. Yes, a plan was (and still is) afoot to empower the MB!

Mind you, this analysis was written in Dec. 2013….and the fact that more than a few jihadists popped out of the woodwork threatening yours truly with this and that after its debut, well….and (according to my counterterror contacts) they were mostly Saudi linked!!

Thanks, Adina! We have not explored the Saudi link in our
enquiries, but we certainly contend that Benghazi was supposed to be the setup for a Blind Sheikh swop with Ambassador Stevens as the unwitting cupie doll–and we also published our firm findings and a few tentative findings about the affair back in August of 2013–which we know you noticed because you commented at the time, much to our delight, as always! Here it is again for those who care to check it out:

Americans continue to shake their heads and puzzle at the seeming illogic of the entire Benghazi affair, while we continue to cry out in the cyberspacial wilderness that it all makes perfect sense if you know the facts–it just didn’t work! We also were greatly heartened to note your own highly similar insights into this debacle at the time! We, however, forgot to place our information and contacts in a “safe place”–so it’s a good thing we live in a cave, huh!